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Why Can't Philosophers Laugh?
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 15.06.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319550442 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<div><p>This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse. Katrin Froese maintains that many philosophical accounts of laughter try to unearth laughter's purpose, thereby rendering it secondary to the intentional and purposive aspects of human nature that impel us to philosophize. Froese also considers texts that take laughter and the comic as starting points, attempting to philosophize out of laughter rather than merely trying to unearth reasons for laughter. The book proposes that continuously unraveling philosophical assumptions through the comic and laughter may be necessary to live well.</p></div>
<p>Chapter One: We Have a Body?!: Kant, Schopenhauer and Bergson<b></b></p>
<p>Chapter Two: Redeeming Laughter in Nietzsche</p>
<p>Chapter Three: Humour and Finitude in Kierkegaard </p>
<p>Chapter Four: A Comic Confucius?</p>
<p>Chapter Five: Humour as the Playful Sidekick to Language in the <i>Zhuangzi</i></p>
<p>Chapter Six: Laughing for Nothing in Chan Buddhism<b></b></p>
<p>Chapter Two: Redeeming Laughter in Nietzsche</p>
<p>Chapter Three: Humour and Finitude in Kierkegaard </p>
<p>Chapter Four: A Comic Confucius?</p>
<p>Chapter Five: Humour as the Playful Sidekick to Language in the <i>Zhuangzi</i></p>
<p>Chapter Six: Laughing for Nothing in Chan Buddhism<b></b></p>
<p>Katrin Froese is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of three previous books: <i>Rousseau and Nietzsche: Toward an Aesthetic Morality </i>(2001),<i> Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Daoist Thought: Crossing Paths In-Betwee</i>n (2006), and<i> Ethics Unbound: Some Chinese and Western Perspectives on Morality</i> (2013). <br></p>
This book analyzes Western and Chinese philosophical texts to determine why laughter and the comic have not been a major part of philosophical discourse. Katrin Froese maintains that many philosophical accounts of laughter try to unearth laughter's purpose, thereby rendering it secondary to the intentional and purposive aspects of human nature that impel us to philosophize. Froese also considers texts that take laughter and the comic as starting points, attempting to philosophize out of laughter rather than merely trying to unearth reasons for laughter. The book proposes that continuously unraveling philosophical assumptions through the comic and laughter may be necessary to live well.<br><p></p>
<p>Methodological study of humor and its philosophical value</p><p>Melds Chinese and Western philosophy in pursuit of an understanding of laughter</p><p>Argues that the comic is not antithetical to philosophy, but invites a different kind of thinking that is playful and exploratory</p>
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